parallelomania

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Matthew 17:12 has an early example of 'parallelomania'

Pointless Parallels James F. McGrath 2009
I don't find his viewpoint persuasive, but it deserves to be heard and considered seriously in a way that some pseudo-historical claims, popular among so-called skeptics prone to engaging in parallelomania, do not HT Tom Verenna.

Archive 2009-01-01 James F. McGrath 2009
Why did the author of Mark say John wore a leather belt, if he was not indulging in parallelomania?

Pointless Parallels James F. McGrath 2009
And so perhaps the chapter on the Greco-Roman context of earliest Christianity was developed before Samuel Sandmel invented his cure for parallelomania.

Pointless Parallels James F. McGrath 2009
It took me a while to realize that Sandmel's parallelomania article was written in 1962 and so, presumably, the last sentence of your post might display just a tiny drop of sarcasm.

Pointless Parallels James F. McGrath 2009
The Biblical authors liked to indulge in standards of parallelomania which modern scholars would blanche at.

Pointless Parallels James F. McGrath 2009
The leather belt is a dead giveaway of parallelomania at its worst.

Pointless Parallels James F. McGrath 2009
I don't find his viewpoint persuasive, but it deserves to be heard and considered seriously in a way that some pseudo-historical claims, popular among so-called skeptics prone to engaging in parallelomania, do not HT Tom Verenna.

Mythicism and Inerrancy James F. McGrath 2009